What are the problems in promoting Mandarin?

The significance of promoting Mandarin

Putonghua is the language commonly used throughout the country. Mandarin uses Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Northern dialect as the basic dialect, and typical modern vernacular writings as the grammatical standard.

In the historical process of building socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics, vigorously promoting and actively popularizing Mandarin, which is commonly used throughout the country, is conducive to overcoming language barriers, promoting social exchanges, and is of great significance to socialist economic, political, and cultural construction. important meaning.

With the development of reform and opening up and the socialist market economy, society’s demand for Mandarin is becoming increasingly urgent. Promoting and popularizing Mandarin and creating a good language environment are conducive to promoting personnel exchanges, commodity circulation and establishing a unified market. .

Our country is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-dialect country. Promoting and popularizing Mandarin is conducive to enhancing exchanges among various ethnic groups and regions, safeguarding national unity, and enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation.

Language is an important carrier of culture. Language and writing skills are the basic content of cultural quality, and the promotion and popularization of Mandarin is an important part of quality education in schools at all levels. Promoting and popularizing common activities is conducive to the implementation of the strategic policy of education facing modernization, the world, and the future, and is conducive to carrying forward the motherland's excellent traditional culture and patriotism, and strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

The level of information technology is one of the indicators to measure the level of national science and technology. Language is the most important carrier of information, and standardization of language and characters is a prerequisite for improving the level of Chinese information processing. Promoting the popularization of Mandarin and implementing the "Hanyu Pinyin Plan" will help promote the development and application of Chinese information processing technology.

Dialect Jokes

A Shandong man went to Beijing on a business trip. He came to a restaurant and planned to eat green onions mixed with sauce. So I said to the waitress: "Miss, peel off a green onion for me!" After hearing this, the lady was very puzzled, but she did it anyway. After a long time, the lady came out. She put the tray on the table and said sweetly: "Sir, the eight green onions you asked for are here." At that time, the Shandong native's face turned green with anger. Everyone on the side burst into laughter.

Yunnan

Two people from Yunnan went to Beijing. They heard that Beijing roast duck was very famous, so they decided to eat it. As soon as they sat down, one of them said to the waiter: "Go there. Here are two roast ducks!" After waiting for a while, they saw the waiter waving a roast duck in front of them and then left. One of them got impatient, so he called the waiter and asked why he didn't serve it to them. Roast duck, the waiter said: "Didn't you ask me to bring a roast duck for dumpling?"

Note: ("Dumping" means "eating" in Yunnan dialect)

It is said that a certain gentleman went on a business trip to Changzhou and met a woman crying by the river: "My child fell into the water! My child fell into the water!" He was so frightened that he jumped in without thinking about himself. After fishing for a long time in the water, he only found one shoe. He raised it and asked the woman, "Where is your child?" When the woman saw the shoe, she said happily: "That's my child!" It turned out that the local dialect The word "shoes" is pronounced as "child", haha. I wonder if the "someone" who became a drowned rat because of a shoe would sigh in his heart: "Hey, I was hit by the dialect!"